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Wastewater Is Water Too
Author(s) -
Maxwell Steve
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2003.tb10448.x
Subject(s) - wastewater , consolidation (business) , business , water industry , natural monopoly , capital (architecture) , natural resource economics , environmental science , environmental engineering , water supply , economics , market economy , finance , archaeology , history , monopoly
This article discusses how water utilities are increasingly viewing wastewater as another potential source of drinking water and how the water and wastewater industries are very similar in the overall size of both industries, and how they both use the same technological approaches and systems. Both industries are faced with a critical need for infrastructure replacement and capital expenditure, and because both industries have the economic characteristics of natural monopolies, they demonstrate similar tendencies toward consolidation.